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This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A fascistic government's capital punishment extends beyond death. Intellectually superior aliens from a doomed world choose Earth's dogs as their new vessels. Not-quite-human beings on an Earth wasted by biological warfare continously fight an enemy which has long been annihilated. These and other possible fates may be discovered in this collection, which includes: A Thousand Deaths Clap Hands and Sing, Dogwalker, But We Try Not to Act Like It, I Put My Blue Genes On, In the Doghouse, and The Originist. Card includes background commentaries for each story in his afterwords and introductions.
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"Definitive…A series of introductions and afterwords offering Card's thoughts on his life and his writing are as absorbing as the stories.
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Publishers Weekly
"The award-winning author of Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the Alvin Maker series demonstrates his talent for shorter fiction in this collection of forty-six stories that range from fantasy and SF to horror and theological speculation…Detailed introductions and afterwords reveal insights into the thought processes of one of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume; f
The award-winning author of Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the Alvin Maker series
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